Hello all, I'm having some trouble with external disks. So far with any flashdrive or even with a normal full HDD if I format it in Disk Utility with MS DOS I get an error saying the operation can not be completed because of an unexpected error (Error Code 0). I have sued multiple different drives, different ports etc. but no change. These are perfectly fine when formatted in Mac OS Extended but I need them to be compatible with PC's as well as my Mini. Any help on why this is happening? _________________Mac Mini C2D 1.83Ghz 4GBs RAM
7200.2 Momentus SATA II 200GB Internal
OWC Mercury Elita-AL Pro w/ Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB
32" LN32A450 LCD Samsung
Klipsch Cinema 6 Series
HTC Incredible

It's times like this when I really miss System 6.0.7. It had English error messages.

Anyway, are the drives bigger than 2 GBs? If so, then they need to be partitioned down to 2 GB sections. That is if OS X formats MS DOS as FAT16, if it does FAT32 then it should support larger partitions.

Thanks for the replies guys, sadly they did not help. When I attempted to format one of the sticks 8gb with MS-DOS FAT32 the mac had the same problem. Also, the drives are not larger than 127, its 16GB and 8GB. Both were formatted with MSB and MS-DOS FAT32. The PC saw them fine, could read/write to it. I just can't transfer to them. Weirdly, I can create a folder inside the HD but can't transfer anything to it. _________________Mac Mini C2D 1.83Ghz 4GBs RAM
7200.2 Momentus SATA II 200GB Internal
OWC Mercury Elita-AL Pro w/ Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB
32" LN32A450 LCD Samsung
Klipsch Cinema 6 Series
HTC Incredible